Proposal Submission FAQ

The deadline to submit a proposal for the 2024 Making Schools Work Conference is January 31, 2024. 

All proposals must be submitted through our online submission system.

You must complete your proposal submission in one sitting. Once you submit your proposal, you may come back at a later time to edit or update it.

Our online system will ask you to identify whether you are submitting a proposal on behalf of someone else (Submitter) or submitting a proposal yourself as a Primary Presenter. (Primary presenters are automatically considered submitters.)
 

Submitters must identify at least one person as the Primary Presenter of the session. Enter this information on the Review page, after providing the session's title, abstract and details.
 

Your session may have multiple presenters. On our Review page, please add or delete your session's Primary Presenter (if you are only a Submitter) and as many Co-Presenters as you would like by clicking the "Add Co-Presenter" button to the right of your session title. Our system will prompt you to look up each new presenter and enter his or her information.

Complete contact information must be provided for each person associated with the session. 

Please follow the steps on our Search page, as follows:

• If your organization is listed but not your name, please click "New Contact" and enter yourself.
• If you do not find your name or your organization in the search results, please click "New Registration."
• If you'd like to try your search again, please click "New Search."

If you are a Submitter or Primary Presenter and you cannot find your Co-Presenter(s) in the system, you will need to add them by clicking "New Contact" and entering their information.

Yes! We welcome your resubmission and encourage you to use last year's accepted session title and description when you enter your proposal in our eShow submission system. Check your email for a message containing your session's title and edited description. Can't find it? Contact us at summerconference@sreb.org.

We would also welcome your new submission.

All persons associated with a proposal - Submitter, Primary Presenter and any Co-Presenters - will receive correspondence about the sessions with which they are associated.

Yes. However, if the number of quality proposals exceeds the number of sessions available, our conference organizers may choose to accept one proposal per person.

Check your email for the automated message you were sent after submitting your original proposal. It contains the username and password you must use to log in to our Proposal Service Center.
 

If you've forgotten or lost your password, visit our Proposal Service Center page, click "Forgot Password?" and follow the system's instructions to reset your password.
 

Until January 31, when the system closes, you may edit or update all elements of your proposal's content or presenters.

All presenters must:

• Align sessions with a conference objective.
• Provide your school and summer contact information.
• Provide your job title, position, school, district and state.
• Agree to present at your scheduled time.
• Bring your own laptop and any special AV connectors to your session. Projectors will be available in all meeting rooms.
• Arrange and pay for your travel and lodging.
• Register and pay your conference registration fee.

We appreciate the care you invest in preparing proposals. When choosing sessions, we consider:

• Session diversity: SREB strives to ensure that conference sessions address diverse topics, audiences, grade levels and formats. We encourage you to apply your unique perspective to a conference objective and to emphasize tangible takeaways for session attendees.
• Session availability: We’ve reduced the number of sessions at the Making Schools Work Conference to ensure that attendees aren’t overwhelmed by choices and presenters can enjoy larger, engaged audiences.
• Session value: SREB’s Making Schools Work Conference is renowned for helping educators and school teams acquire research-based, classroom-tested tools and strategies they can use to improve student engagement and achievement and transform their school communities. Conference organizers look for sessions that feature hands-on problem-solving, powerful practices, inspiring stories of transformational change and examples of strong leadership.

We're happy to help. Email us at summerconference@sreb.org.